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" Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work. "

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" Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre. "

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" Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it. "

" Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. "

" Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. "

" A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth. "

" As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. "

" I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch. "

" I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. "

" It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished. "

" It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful. "

" Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end. "

" Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. "

" A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else. "

" To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. "

" I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work. "

" I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. "

" It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world. "

" 'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at. "